A review by dearcomposer
Love of Worker Bees by Alexandra Kollontai

4.0

Perhaps what this book (or collection of stories) lacks in fluidity, it makes up for in straightforwardness. The first story which is highly biographical (I read Kollontai's auto-biography right before this), but seeks to justify why Kollontai felt so disappointed with the state of relationships in the Bolshevik era. But these stories don't come across as a lament or inability to move on from the author, but rather to tie universal truths of love (the excitement, drama, complacency, and eventual end) and explore new manifestations of emotional connection. Not the most romantically written prose, the content does suffice.